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authorKent Fritz <fritz.kent@gmail.com>2011-11-06 11:52:24 -0200
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2011-11-26 09:09:08 -0600
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network/hydra: Updated for version 7.1 (+new maintainer)
Signed-off-by: Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org>
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+Hydra (A very fast network login cracker)
+
One of the biggest security holes are user passwords, as every
password security study shows. This tool is a proof of concept,
to give researchers and security consultants a way to demonstrate
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This requires libssh (not libssh2). postgresql is optional, as is
sap, but sap is not available at SlackBuilds.org.
+
+This SlackBuild includes an option to omit the GTK-based frontend xhydra.
+To omit xhydra, just pass XHYDRA=0 to the script:
+ XHYDRA=0 sh hydra.SlackBuild
+
+See the README installed in /usr/doc/hydra-7.1 for more info, or visit the
+website:
+ http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra
+
+NOTE:
+There is a utility, dpl4hydra.sh, that is installed in the documentation
+directory in this SlackBuild due to it being somewhat broken.
+